Ruth Brennan

• Stakeholder and Relationship Management: Partnered with senior hiring managers across multiple departments (commercial, finance, legal, operations) to align recruitment strategies with business needs, providing consultative support, and ensuring high-quality, efficient hires.
• Negotiation & Influence: Led offer negotiations and candidate-closing processes, managing multiple stakeholder interests to secure top talent while maintaining strong relationships with both internal teams and external candidates.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilized ATS tools and Looker to track key recruitment metrics, analyze performance, and drive continuous improvements. Delivered insights to leadership on trends, conversion rates, and process optimization, informing strategic hiring decisions.
• Market Insights & Advisory: Provided hiring managers and senior leaders with market trends, salary benchmarks, and regional recruitment dynamics, advising on the best strategies to attract and retain top talent.
• End-to-End Recruitment Management: Led the full recruitment cycle for senior roles across departments, including research, sourcing, candidate assessment, and offer negotiation, ensuring a seamless and positive experience for both candidates and hiring managers.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, I collaborated with senior stakeholders across a 300-person operations department to drive recruitment strategies that supported the growth and success of the business. I managed full-cycle recruitment, from sourcing to onboarding, ensuring the right talent was hired for critical roles. By developing strong relationships with leadership and department heads, I helped align recruitment efforts with the company’s strategic objectives.

Key Achievements:

• Fast Paced Growth: Successfully grew the operations team from 200 to 300 people over nearly two years, contributing to the company’s expansion and ability to scale operations effectively.
• Quarterly Recruitment Metric Review: Launched and led quarterly recruitment metric reviews with key stakeholders, providing insights on performance and process improvements to optimize recruitment outcomes.
• Hiring Manager Upskilling: Developed and implemented training programs for hiring managers, focusing on core recruitment skills such as interview techniques, candidate evaluation, and legal compliance.

• HR Associate for all Customer Service Departments
• Utilized BambooHR to manage recruitment, onboarding, offboarding, and file maintenance
• Posted job adverts, sent offer letters, contracts, answered candidate queries
• Completed employee onboarding, vetted new starters
• Completed internal hires and job changes
• Contact person for all employee queries
• Coordinated with Training and Development to further the new starter induction programme

• Utilized HRIS systems (Workday; Peoplesoft; Taleo) to organize employee files, manage onboarding and offboarding progress, and leave tracking.
• Organized new starter inductions.
• Maintained visa applications for all non-EU employees.
• Organized and implemented the GM Recruitment Fair, which allowed us to engage with possible new recruits.
• Organized and implemented the GM Recruitment Fair which allowed us to engage with possible new recruits.
• Initiated the GM Wellness Programme which promoted activities, presentations, and workshops.
• Responsible for full scale onboarding and offboarding.
• Involved in Performance Reviews, Employee Development, as well as HR Communications and administrative tasks.